T-Mobile Employee Steals and Sells 1.5 Million Customer Records

Following the high-profile data breaches of LinkedIn, Tumblr and MySpace, T-Mobile is the latest victim. However, this time information technology's not the Russian hacker who has sold over hundreds of millions of account details en masse in the last two months. T-Mobile has been hit by one of its own - an employee.

T-Mobile employee steals and sells consumer data

One of the T-Mobile staffers has managed to steal over one.five million customer records, trying to sell the information for profit. The incident happened at T-Mobile Czech Republic, where a fellow member of a "small team that ordinarily worked with customer information," apparently having access to over 1.5 million customer records attempted to steal and after sell the information. The carrier hasn't shared whatever more than details due to an ongoing police investigation. But, the company did say that the records didn't contain location, traffic, and whatsoever other sensitive data "such as passwords."

The company has assured its customers that the stolen database didn't contain any sensitive information, equally the database was of "marketing nature." In a argument, Milan Vasina, Managing Director at the T-Mobile Czech Commonwealth said the "information are prophylactic:"

This is a case of a failure of an individual and non a system or procedural failure. Thanks to our robust security mechanisms, we were able to respond immediately and secure the database, which had a purely marketing nature; information technology did non contain any location or traffic information or sensitive data such as passwords.

We would likewise like to rebut speculation that the data leak was connected with the signal failure on 19 April. These two incidents are completely unrelated; from a technological perspective, such connectedness is absolutely excluded.

The local media has reported that this is the largest known breach ever happened in the Czech Republic. Czech Law's Unit for Combating Organized Offense is investigating the breach. T-Mobile has said that its clients won't be exposed to whatsoever security risks, except for potentially being "approached with unsolicited marketing offers." So, be fix for some more scam in your emails.